As a regular visitor to Plettenberg Bay, I have been watching the development and growth of various wine farms from a distance.  This is not because I have doubted that they will succeed, but rather because I love nothing better than visiting, examining the vines in the soil and then tasting the end result.
Last week I [...]

The Featherbed Nature Reserve located on the western head in Knysna offers visitors unspoilt views of the river mouth, Thesen and Leisure islands and the Outeniqua mountain range.
Tours depart daily from 10h00 and 12h00 and includes a buffet lunch. For those wanting a shorter tour experience, the afternoon tour will suit.
Not having been across [...]

Asking an Italian about Michelangelo would perhaps invite a scorn and a frown but in South Africa it has a different connotation, where the 14th Michelangelo International Awards wine competition is  underway in Stellenbosch, writes Subhash Arora who has been invited as one of the international judges.
Founded by a PR person with no background of [...]

FOR a limited time only, buyers can pick up a vineyard in the Margaret River free.
The decline in value of wine ­assets in the millionaires’ playground of Western Australia has been so great that some vineyards lost all of their value, after being priced at $60,000 to $70,000 a hectare just a few years ago.
The [...]

A Blenheim man’s invention takes wineries one step closer to going off-grid.
Kevin Parker, of Blenheim company Vine Gas Ltd, has invented an engine with an inbuilt distillation column which produces and is fuelled by ethanol made from winemaking waste.
Heat from the engine is captured and used to drive the distillation of ethanol from grape-skin pulp. [...]

Research that ranks Australians among the world’s worst abusers of alcohol is more proof of the need for alcohol tax reform and price increases, experts say.
Professor Paul Haber, medical director of Drug Health Services for the Sydney South-West Area Health Service, said introducing a volumetric tax would help to reduce the broadscale but overlooked impact [...]

RMB WineX Cape Town will open at the CTICC on 19 August as a completely different show. After seven years as the largest and most important premium consumer wine event in the Western Cape, RMB WineX will be raising an already elevated bar. Aiming for quality rather than quantity, the organisers have amended the show format [...]

The very first goal scored at the Fifa World Cup on the 11th of June 2010 by Tshabalala was electrifying…Soccer City exploded!
But it was not only about the beautiful game…
The united spirit of the rainbow people of South Africa during the joyous month of the World Cup had such a profound effect on my life.  [...]

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I was recently asked by an international visitor the standard question we all get at some or other stage:  “which is your favourite wine?”.  Dare I say that I am known to blush quite easily as I struggle to answer this seemingly innocent question.
Blushing has been part of my life ever since I turned six and [...]